First Webcomic

It was either Mega Tokyo or Alien Loves Predator—I started reading them both right around the same time, so I can't remember which one technically came first. I stopped reading ALP when the creator all but abandoned it a few months later. (Hm, looks like he's updating every 1-2 weeks now. Maybe I should give it another shot.) I still follow Mega Tokyo, despite the fact that I've discovered over a dozen better comics since then.

edited 28th Sep '10 11:48:41 AM by ThePaintedMaypole

XKCD. I saw this posted on the wall of my physics class, and I wanted to see more.

That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful

Sverd Shelgr. OOTS-esque comic based on The Inheritance Cycle. Ended after 200 comics, never very poplar, but pretty funny.

Likes many underrated webcomics

@Feo. You and I are very different creatures. That one is pretty much the distillation of what I don't like about XKCD.

Again with the data mining, dear Aunt?

Lego Robot Comics was the first I archive binged, not that that was exactly hard.

edited 28th Sep '10 10:28:54 PM by Jimbobbowilly

nope

^^ Amusingly, I stopped reading the comic when I didn't think the author was capable of writing that sort of strip anymore (this pale imitation notwithstanding.) I wonder if that means you'd like it now.

That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful

nthing Eight Bit Theater

Because I choose to.

N being 0 before you arrived and 1 now. Just to be clear, were you stating what your first webcomic ever was, or are you in the wrong thread?

Sakamoto demands an explanation for this shit.

Er:

Productivity is for people without internet connections. -Count Dorku

. . . cmd-F failure. Everyone else spelled it with the numeral.

Either way it's an interesting first choice. I don't normally think of sprite comics as a gateway.

edited 29th Sep '10 7:20:09 AM by GoggleFox

Sakamoto demands an explanation for this shit.

Boy, the questions brings back some fond memories.

Ozie and Millie, and some crude, rude strip called Bad Bunny that was really funny. Both gone the way of most old webcomics now.

The very first ones I read were some very obscure things that I don't remember the name of anymore. I think the first one I really got into was Sluggy Freelance, though. This being about a decade ago, I'm not entirely certain about that, though.

Eight Bit Theater, back in 2003.Followed closely by Ctrl Alt Del and Bob And George. Wow, that was a looooooong time ago.

We're not just men of science, we're men of TROPE!

My first was Kevin And Kell. At the time, I thought it was pretty neat; a comic on the Internet that I could read the entire run of for free was a novel concept. From there, I found a link to Ozy And Millie, which was the first webcomic that I truly adored.

I draw this comic-like thing sometimes.

I started reading the rather mainstream  ^*

Dinosaur Comics at the end of Grade 11. I archive binged throughout the summer and ended up giving a presentation on it during Grade 12 a writing class.

I doubt anyone really cared about it, but the presentation itself went pretty well because I found it interesting was embarrassingly obsessive over it. The poster was nice, too.

edited 29th Sep '10 11:40:19 PM by newtonthenewt

She's playing with fire! He's not ready for Nibbly Pig!

Sabrina Online. I stumbled across it while surfing for porn.

My name is Freezer and my anti-drug is porn.

Sinfest. Although the one that really got me into them is Real Life Comics. Before it I kinda just read Sinfest and some strips on Deviant Art (Awkward Zombie, those by Just Fly A Kite and Cyanide And Happiness).

I HAVE BIG TEETH FOR CHEWING

While I had occasionally run across some other stuff before, like User Friendly and Bob The Angry Flower, the first webcomic I actually got into and Archive Binged was Ozy And Millie. Quite a shame when it jumped the shark, moreso later when I read the author had gone totally bonkers. From links there I found Freefall, which I stopped reading after I noticed how creepy it was, and RPG World, which I really liked.

Oh, and as a mark of how strange I am, I first read Penny Arcade via a mention from Mac Hall (which I first encountered in the diskmag IMG.)

Eric,

Neglected Mario Characters.

Exploitation Now was awesome, if anyone remembers that one.

RPG World, Bruno the Bandit and Sinfest all come close second.

Kagerou was my gateway drug.

derp derp derp

^^Remember it, but I was a bit shocked by the ending. It was my first experience with the Cerebus Syndrome...

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

Mine was actually Caribbean Blue, little pile of fanservice that it is. Still follow it.

I eventually found others like El Goonish Shive and The Wotch (I'm a TF fan, I'll admit) But it wasn't until I ran into Misfile and 8-Bit Theater that I really started becoming a serious webcomic fan.

The first one I ever read was Angels 2200. I'd never read a graphic novel of any sort before, and the only idea I had of comics was Saturday newspaper strips. It was amazing! "What is this? It is like... A movie! Made out of still frames! These characters. I am actually starting to care about them! They have different stories, and different personalities... And I can just keep checking this page on the internet, and gradually learn more and more of what happens to them! INCREDIBLE!" The archive was much smaller back then than it is now, but to me that Archive Binge opened my eyes onto a whole new world.

I haven't actually followed Angels 2200 in ages, though, and I'm not sure I'd like it nearly as much now... But I'll always remember it fondly. :P

edited 16th Nov '10 8:07:45 PM by girlyboy

Someone at some day camp I attended recommended Bob And George.